# սան
## Armenian
### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /sɑn/, [sɑn]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /sɑn/, [sɑn]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Armenian սան (san).

#### Noun

սան • (san)
* nursling
* pupil; alumnus
* godchild
* adopted child, foster child

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սան (san).

#### Noun

սան • (san)
* kettle, cauldron

##### Derived terms

* սանակալ (sanakal)

## Old Armenian
### Etymology 1

Zero-grade of the root սուն- (sun-, “feeding, fostering”).

#### Noun

սան • (san)
* nursling; foster child
* pupil, scholar
* godchild

##### Derived terms

* սանական (sanakan)
* սանակից (sanakicʻ)
* սանահայր (sanahayr)
* սանամայր (sanamayr)

##### Descendants

* Armenian: սան (san)

#### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 170–171
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

### Etymology 2

From Urartian 𒃻𒉌 (ša$_2$-ni /⁠šani⁠/, “kettle”), from Akkadian 𒊺𒉡 (šen-nu /⁠šannu(m), šennu(m)⁠/, “metal kettle or cauldron”), itself a loanword from Sumerian 𒍏𒊿 ($^{URUDU}$šen /⁠šen⁠/, “a copper vessel”).

#### Noun

սան • (san)
* kettle, cauldron

##### Descendants

* Armenian: սան (san)

#### References

* ↑ Ġapʻancʻyan, Grigor (1940) Urartui patmutʻyunə [The History of Urartu] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 38
* ↑ Kapancjan, G. A. (1956) Историко-лингвистические работы: К начальной истории армян: Древняя Малая Азия [Historical-Linguistic Works: Towards an early history of the Armenians. Ancient Asia Minor]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 216
* ↑ Džaukjan, G. B. (1985) “Урартские заимствования в армянском языке [Urartian loanwords in Armenian]”, in Ju. V. Bromlej et al., editors, Культурное наследие Востока: проблемы, поиски, суждения‎ (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, page 368 of 364–372
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 430, 432, 466
* ↑ Fournet, Arnaud (2013) “About the Vocalic System of Armenian Words of Substratic Origin”, in Archív Orientalni‎, volume 81, number 2, pages 207–222
* ↑ Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 14

#### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 170b
* Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 462b
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 726b
* Greppin, John A. C. (2010) “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences‎, volume 4, number 1, pages 179–182
* Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 957
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy